7 posts tagged “rich-skrenta”
2008
The real reason Google’s clicks are flat. Rich Skrenta explains that Google’s recent reduction of the clicable area in Adsense ads, while reducing click-throughs by 60%, will eventually balance out due to non-accidental click-throughs being worth more to advertisers.
The thing that disrupts you is always uglier and worse in some way. Less features, less developed. But if there's a 10X price win in there somewhere, the cheap rickety thing wins in the end.
2007
Kosmos Distributed File System (via) New open source distributed filesystem similar to Google’s GFS.
Some thoughts on Mahalo. Rich Skrenta with notes on running a large site that lives and dies by SEO traffic.
’tie’ considered harmful (via) Rich Skrenta on the disadvantages of abstractions like Perl’s tie, which lets you create hash data structures that aren’t actually hashes. Operator overloading (as seen in Python) suffers the same problems.
If you're designing social media systems, you should be keeping an eye on the $2B industry that sells links from your site to their clients.
How to beat Google, part 1. Rich Skrenta with 12 steps to taking on Google in the search engine space, including some great insights in to smart UI design.